Walt Whitman Quotes - Page 7

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• I love doctors and hate their medicine.

  Walt Whitman

  Hate, Medicine, Doctors

  Walt Whitman, Walter Magnes Teller, Horace Traubel (1973). “Walt Whitman's Camden conversations”

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• Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.

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  Life, Knowledge, Joy

  'When lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed' st. 14

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• I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost . The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires shall duly flame again.

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  Thinking, Fire, Flames

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• O amazement of things-even the least particle!

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  Science, Leaves Of Grass, Amazement

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.303, NYU Press

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• This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people.

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  Nature, Animal, Leaves Of Grass

  "Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition".

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• Americans should know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.

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  Soul, Should, Knows

  Walt Whitman, “Song Of The Open Road”

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• I accept reality and dare not question it.

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  Reality, Accepting, Dare

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.30, NYU Press

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• I think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost .

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  Lost Love, Thinking, Lost

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• Something there is more immortal even than the stars.

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  Stars, Leaves Of Grass, Immortal

  Walt Whitman (1870). “Passage to India”, p.84, Haskell House Pub Limited

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• When I undertake to tell the best, I find I cannot. My tongue is ineffectual on its pivots, My breath will not be obedient to its organs, I become a dumb man.

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  Men, Dumb, Tongue

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman: Selected Poems 1855-1892”, p.164, St. Martin's Press

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• If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more poetry than any equal number of people elsewhere -- probably more than the rest of the world combined. Poetry (like a grand personality) is a growth of many generations -- many rare combinations. To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.

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  Numbers, People, Personality

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)”, p.1480, Delphi Classics

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• If there were nothing else of Abraham Lincoln for history to stamp him with, it is enough to send him with his wreath to the memory of all future time, that he endured that hour, that day, bitterer than gall - indeed a crucifixion day - that it did not conquer him - that he unflinchingly stemmed it, and resolved to lift himself and the Union out of it.

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  Memories, Wreaths, Unions

  Walt Whitman (1990). “Memoranda During the War”, p.82, Applewood Books

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• Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations.

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  Leaves Of Grass, Democratic, Character Education

  Walt Whitman (2015). “Poems By Walt Whitman”, Walt Whitman

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• A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking.

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  Women, Waiting, Wait For Me

  Walt Whitman (2003). “The Portable Walt Whitman”, p.151, Penguin

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• Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!

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  Giving, Solitude, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman, Howard Nelson (2010). “Earth, My Likeness: Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman”, p.81, North Atlantic Books

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• Now I see that there is no such thing as love unreturn'd. The pay is certain, one way or another.

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  Love, Pay, Way

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• A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

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  Nature, Children, Hands

  'Song of Myself' (1855) st. 6

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• From this hour, freedom! Going where I like, my own master.

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  Hours, Masters, My Own

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• There will soon be no more priests... They may wait awhile, perhaps a generation or two, dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take their place. A new order shall arise and they shall be the priests of man, and every man shall be his own priest.

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  Men, Order, Two

  Walt Whitman (1961). “Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition”, p.22, Penguin

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• Whoever degrades another degrades me.

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  Degradation, Degrade

  Walt Whitman, Robert Hass (2010). “Song of Myself, and Other Poems”, p.102, Counterpoint Press

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• All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.

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  Music, Baritones, Instruments

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.90, NYU Press

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• And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.

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  Males, Female, Equal

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.283, NYU Press

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• There is no God any more divine than Yourself.

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  Divine, There Is No God

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• I like the scientific spirit-the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine-it always keeps the way beyond open.

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  Science, Ideas, Way

  Walt Whitman, Walter Magnes Teller, Horace Traubel (1973). “Walt Whitman's Camden conversations”

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• Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.

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  Struggle, Book, Reading

  Walt Whitman (1876). “Two rivulets, including Democratic vistas, Centennial songs, and Passage to India [and As a strong bird on pinions free, and Memoranda during the war. Author's ed”

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